An Almost Total Lunar Eclipse
Predawn hours of November 19 found the Moonin partly cloudy skies over Cancun, Mexico.Captured in thistelephoto snapshot,the lunar disk is not quite entirely immersed in Earth’s darkumbral shadowduring a long partial lunar eclipse.The partial eclipse was deep though, deep enough to showthe dimmed but reddened light in Earth’s shadow.That’s a sightoften anticipated byfans of total lunar eclipses.
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